.NET XmlTextWriter inserting unwanted charactors

[Stevoie]

Hi

I am using the .NET System.Xml.XmlTextWriter class to create some xml files. I noticed that there were three extra charactors at the start of the xml file that i had not requested.

They are: [red][/red]

What i need to know is how to stop the XmlTextWriter from writing these out. They are interfering with my SAX parser.

Thanks,

StevoIE

StevoIE

 

[JohnYingling]

Tthose characters are what identifes what character encodng was used to encode the file e.g. UTF8, UTF7, Unicode, ASCII

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[Stevoie]

yeah thanks for that.

i changed the encoding to ASCII and it works fine now.



Stevoie

 

[chiph]

Those are the UTF-8 byte-order marks. See:

http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM

According the the spec, they're optional. Which means that any XML parser should still be able to read them.

Because you're saying that you don't want them, that's a sign that you're reading the XML file as if it were a plain text file. And that's not best practice -- you should make a point of only using XML-aware readers when loading XML documents and/or strings.

Chip H.


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